You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

You should never give up your inner self.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Always do whatever’s next.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

We become what we repeatedly do.

We all have done something unethical.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.